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I'm Adam Epstein and I'm a dirty moderate. 


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Dirty moderates. 


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Thank you. 


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Thank you for listening. 


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As always. 


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I always want to thank the listeners for helping this 


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podcast, be what it is for seeing it grow, for being 


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helping it grow. 


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I should say, and for being so loyal. 


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Thank you. 


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This is stay dirty stained moderate every week. 


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I am here with my take as you know, I sit down with guests of 


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all Stripes, all backgrounds with people, 


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I disagree with. 


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That's what we do here. 


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And people I agree with some who I sort of agree with and we 


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talked we discourse right? 


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We And that's a big deal if you think about it. 


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Why is it a big deal? 


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Well, we have in the last six years and I say six because I'm 


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including 2016, become a bullying culture, a bullying 


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Society. 


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I think Trump is partly to blame. 


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I think he symptomatic, but I think we are a killer be 


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killed. 


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And I mean, that in a metaphorical sense, of course, 


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culture. 


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I think we are authoritarian in our actions and our 


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If so, I think we're intolerant. 


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I think in many cases, that is a right-wing and tolerance and 


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many other cases. 


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It's left wing collar because I think we don't want to hear, we 


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don't want to hear, we don't want to be told, we are right 


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or wrong. 


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We don't want to disagree 


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with people or have to disagree. 


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Shall I say with people who we think we shouldn't disagree 


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with? 


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What does that mean? 


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Well, I don't know why Democrats have to be brain-dead 


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in the state of California with some of the worst leaders, 


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running the city of Los Angeles, the city of San 


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Francisco. 


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State a democratic super majority that is completely 


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spendthrift. 


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I believe, corrupt, totally incompetent and wrong on. 


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I'd say half the things and they continually go vote for 


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these people. 


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Why? 


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Well, because they are blue, right? 


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Because we've had, we have this talk all the time, on your 


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team, red and your team blue, and that's all it is. 


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We've solved the world's problems. 


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I have all the right answers. 


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You have all the right answers were done 


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wrong. 


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Absolutely wrong, 


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very short. 


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Citing, very stupid, very foolish, 


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very babyish. 


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And in many ways anti-democratic small be right, and 


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this is becoming, it isn't becoming. 


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It is an infection and it is infectious. 


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When you ask your fellow liberal or fellow conservative 


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or fellow independent, why they think what they think 


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they say, well, I think I'm supposed to think that way or 


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it sounds good, or it feels good. 


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Right? 


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I'm a sensitive guy. 


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So we should be sensitive about this or I'm an insensitive. 


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Sin, and I don't think we care. 


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Well, 


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neither of those things are relevant to whether the good 


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policies are not right. 


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So moderates, you know, 


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we got to talk about, obviously, few things. 


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But first and foremost, we have the biggest authoritarian, 


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bully. 


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Who is the farthest thing from a Mater? 


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Is the governor of Florida around us. 


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And this I think this guy has got to be maybe beside Ted Cruz 


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and Greg Abbott Governor Texas. 


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This guy's got to be 


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as Paramount and pointedly an asshole. 


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Is anybody I understand. 


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This is engaging in his continued war with Disney in 


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Orlando 


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to the point that he has now gotten the vote of the Florida 


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Senate. 


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And by the way, everyone who doesn't know I'm born and 


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raised in Miami Beach, Florida. 


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Florida at one time. 


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In the old days was considered kind of a southern Democratic 


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State. 


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Obviously, as you know, has trended read in the last decade 


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or so. 


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Interestingly enough, Bill Clinton carried it. 


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The second time. 


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Oh, Barack Obama care to twice Joe Biden. 


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Lost it. 


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The makeup of between them, 


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the Venezuelan Cuban Community, large streaks of Latino 


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conservatism mixed with the Aging population. 


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And the state north of the I-4 Corridor is pretty red. 


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It's become more reliably Republican, which is 


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interesting because that's not always been its history, but 


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it's become. 


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Also a Haven for wacko, Birds. 


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Okay, John McCain, famously called Ted Cruz. 


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A wacko bird. 


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It's one of my favorite word's. 


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So Ron DeSantis now his attack won't stop. 


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What's the attack about? 


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Well, the attack is about Don't say gay. 


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And to be clear, the bill don't say, gay doesn't say, don't say 


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gay. 


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Okay, in other words, that that is what the opponent's have 


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labeled it. 


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And I am on the opposing side to be clear, but it is, it is a 


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bill that is really restricting specifically kindergarten to 


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third grade classrooms from teaching, about sexual 


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orientation, or gender identity. 


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It does bleed into higher grades because the language is 


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so vague in its 


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That, 


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who knows if an 11th grade teacher decides to talk about 


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his or her, let gay partner, what that will mean for the 


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students of Winter Haven. 


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Florida, be a gas where the kids at Pensacola ever be able 


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to withstand the idea that one of their classmates has two 


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daddies. 


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I mean, first of all, I can't believe we're talking about 


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this but a lot of this animus and this is really important, 


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is rooted in the anti-trans movement, which is gaining a 


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tremendous amount of momentum, and is sweeping a lot of the 


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red States. 


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Especially when it comes to sports, but the Santa's going 


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further. 


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The Santas is saying, 


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I can't believe Disney is withholding donations and 


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criticizing me and my Administration for doing this. 


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So I am going to take away a key provision. 


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Which Disney has enjoyed? 


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It was this provision by the way, was agreed upon in 1967 


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Disney World. 


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We're talking about, did not open until 1971, but they enjoy 


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their own self-contained municipality. 


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What does that mean? 


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They're exempt from certain fees and regulations. 


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Oceans 


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and they get to act as a little mini City, you know, free from 


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you might say government interference. 


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Now, I'm old enough to remember, and I think many of 


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you are when the conservative movement felt that government 


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shouldn't meddle, right? 


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They've always had a little bit of contradiction about whether 


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it's your meddlin Nippers, private life, but that, that's 


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not what this discussions about. 


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Certainly two days. 


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They're not really conservatives when they use 


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that term. 


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Today's 


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let's call them denizens of trump a stand. 


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Are in the business of punishing people with whom we 


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disagree expanding the power of the state. 


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Not shrinking government, right? 


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In this case, in the State of Florida, but the state being 


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the government and using it as a weapon weaponizing, it 


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against your political enemies, the vulnerable, the 


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marginalized mainly because it works the base into a lather 


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and it quote unquote owns the lips. 


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What I'm trying to say is this a bad faith position? 


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Does that mean there aren't legitimate people out there who 


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have issues with 


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gendering and gender? 


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On pronoun and the transmitted. 


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Yeah, I do. 


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And I don't think all of them are in bad faith. 


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I think a lot of Americans need any time in this area to 


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understand how to catch up with some of this stuff. 


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But these people right want to make it punitive. 


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They want to stigmatize that they want to hurt people. 


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They want to see the power of the government in regulatory 


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action 


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in Vengeance. 


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Taking away right now. 


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Disney the biggest company in that state, you know, Florida 


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is known mainly for its tourism. 


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Doesn't agree 


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Disney employees. 


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A lot of gay people 


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does. 


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The employees trans people Disney has been very forward on 


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that. 


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They had civil union. 


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Several Partnerships long before marriage equality was 


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the law of the land and they don't like this. 


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They it's bad for business. 


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They think it's bad for Florida. 


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They make it's bad for human beings. 


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Rhonda Santa's is on an authoritarian Quest. 


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He's going to run for president. 


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I assume he will be re-elected. 


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Sadly, this fall in 2024, if you all get out and voting 


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wouldn't 


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But, you know, this might be your the people's decide to 


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stay on the couch because they're so fed up. 


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And then two Santa's is positioned as the governor of 


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one of the largest states with believe. 


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It's 27, electoral votes to run for president. 


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I still think Trump is running. 


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This is going to be quite the food fight of a shit show 


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recently. 


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By the way. 


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There's a video with Roger Stone and Trump at an event and 


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Roger Stone says, you know, around the same. 


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This is a piece of shit. 


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It's all on tape went viral, Trump doesn't say anything, but 


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he kind of Nod, so, you know, he's smarter than that, but But 


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the point being is we have a guy who is a bully and my 


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started by saying we're and intolerant bullying place and I 


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believe since 2016, 


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Trump unleash the ID on our world that ID, right? 


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And did not know that the ability of you than in the 


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super-ego and Freudian terms, the idea that you were going to 


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go and act out every impulse that you want to have because 


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you are fucking pissed, you are loaded for bear. 


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You are ready to come out. 


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Swing against your opponent. 


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You're not there just to disagree with your opponent's 


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ugly. 


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Think we're To do or that we 


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should be doing in a democracy. 


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You were there to punish them. 


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This is, this is the Rhonda. 


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Santa's Trump's GOP Playbook. 


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We hate you so much. 


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We will pass laws, even if they're unconstitutional wrong, 


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even if we Sully 


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somebody's name or or try to block something. 


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Let's say in the case of Catania brow Jackson where, but 


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for three Republicans, they all voted no acted abhorrently. 


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Lee at a hearing Astra questions, like, how do you 


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define a woman and our babies racist and all this stuff? 


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And again, I talked about this before. 


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My point is, this is nothing to do with whether she was 


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qualifying. 


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A lot of the stuff going in, Florida has nothing to do with 


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deep animus 


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on the part of everybody against, let's say the lgbtq 


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community, but if you're in politics, you got to do what 


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the politics we want. 


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I think it's terrible politics, but you have a guy into Santa's 


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who is governing with an iron fist, so it doesn't matter what 


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you think. 


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And let me say this. 


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I'm not excusing. 


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And the net result is the same. 


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If you make bad policy that hurts people, still hurts 


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people, whether you meant to do it or not or whether you were 


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doing it for the complete childish, bogus unamerican 


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reason, 


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right of owning the lips. 


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Now as already knows, I'm not a liberal. 


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Okay, not a Democrat, but I'm also not a conservative. 


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I'm not a republican. 


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I have 


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I think I have 


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what shall we say? 


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Visitation rights in both parties suppose harder and 


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harder to have visitation rights the Public and party, 


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but you know, it's election year and I'm listening to 


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podcast with Democratic strategist Democratic 


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pollsters. 


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You know what, guys, you don't get it? 


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You just don't get it. 


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All right, everything with this with this crowd is well, you 


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know, we have democracy under threat and we've got racists, 


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and we've got bad people. 


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All this is true. 


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By the way, everybody knows here. 


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We fight like hell for democracy, or we do it 


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everyday. 


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I do it on Twitter. 


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I do an Instagram. 


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I try to do in my life, but, you know, in this room 


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That I'm in. 


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And I thank you for allowing me to have this world. 


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We have a party. 


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That seems unaware that when inflation and gas prices are 


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hurting the average person, regardless of whose fault. 


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It is voters are going to vote. 


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Yea, 


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turning around saying, well, it's because of this, or 


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because of that. 


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And because of this, and because of that, because of 


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this, nobody cares, okay, it's we're coming out of a horrible 


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time. 


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Horrible, pandemic. 


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I think the scourge of trumpism still is very much 


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coursing through our bloodstream. 


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I'm even though Trump is in president and you've got a lot 


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of trauma. 


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You also have a lot of exhaustion, but democracy 


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depends upon your tirelessness authoritarians are counting on 


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your apathy. 


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Okay, they're counting on you being over there, counting on 


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you not being willing 


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to get out and vote. 


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But then when you get stupid comments, like, well, if 


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everybody just or didn't have a problem with Devon, the police, 


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it would be. 


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Okay. 


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And it, everybody spoke out constantly consistently about 


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identity politics, and what group you're in, then all would 


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be fine. 


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Wrong wrong wrong. 


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The country isn't a left-wing country. 


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It's not a right. 


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This is a Centrist country. 


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It's probably Center really come to think of it. 


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Probably Center left. 


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But if you Center left center right today, what's right? 


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And what's left is been so skewed and so blown apart, 


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because remember, Trump took so many aspects of the 


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conservative movement and those sort of long-standing norms and 


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shattered them. 


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Right? 


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I mean, the hating of the national security agencies and 


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the hating of law enforcement, especially in January. 


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Six, they only like them. 


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If they're if they're being used to break up, you know, 


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civil rights, protests tariffs, you know, loving Russia saying 


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things like George w--. 


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Bush was a terrible present, Iraq was a mistake hating. 


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Neoconservatives mean all this stuff was, you know, part and 


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parcel of Republican ideology and philosophy for many many 


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years. 


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So we're Far Cry from right from Ronald Reagan. 


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Well, so very Far Cry even argue from George w-- Bush, but 


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I do see 


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Disaster. 


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And I hate to say it because I don't see and there's a lot of 


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races, right? 


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Every house. 


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See it is up. 


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Some of the Senate seats are up and it doesn't work that every 


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Senator is up every four years because they're on six-year 


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terms. 


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So Congress, people have to run every two years for the 435 


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seats in the House of Representatives. 


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And then, there are 100 senators and I believe, a third 


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of them were up this year. 


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It's a better map for Democrats than it is Republican, but it's 


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not a good year. 


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Listen, it's not Joe. 


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His fault that he's facing headlines, but headwinds are 


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had one, you know, it was like during covid-19, people would 


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say, well, there's no work right now or no activity, or 


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everybody doesn't want to do anything because of covid. 


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Well, stasis is stasis. 


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Similarly, political headwinds are headwinds and we're so 


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tribal to the point that I think the Democrats are 


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constantly, not on guard, not playing offense. 


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They're always playing defense. 


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When Republicans come out. 


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Do something as horrible as don't say gay to call it that, 


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because that's what we call it, or the Republicans do something 


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like 


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Greg Abbott, they were blocking trucks coming in so that you 


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could clog up the supply chain. 


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They get outraged, they get offended. 


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You know, my God if there's a time, every Democratic, no get 


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offended by something, they get offended, and they and they 


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whine about it rather than getting on the offense. 


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And how but saying we're not here, do PR. 


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We're not here to dilly-dally and being around the bush call 


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around to save this for what he is, 


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you know, come out and say this is what Disney's doing it and 


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it shouldn't be on my dad. 


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Can you believe it? 


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It's a red State. 


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Oh my God. 


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I hate red States. 


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Well, that doesn't solve any problem with 50 states were 


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Union. 


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As long as you as long as we would like to be and I think we 


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will be okay. 


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We're not a secessionist group of people. 


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And by the way, every state that's red has blue voters in 


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it. 


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Every blue state has read voters and everything isn't 


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one. 


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One Fell Swoop. 


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Everything is in one kit and caboodle if you will. 


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And so you think about 20, 22, and you wonder, what else can 


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the Democrats do to make things worse? 


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What else can the by demonstration do? 


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Well? 


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Now we're going to have the CDC appeal. 


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A federal judges, voiding of the Ask mandate on public 


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transport, which happened just the other day to Great 


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consternation and moralizing by the covid police. 


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Okay. 


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Here we go. 


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I want to make clear, you didn't have this podcast 


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before. 


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I was very Vigilant about this. 


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At the time. 


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I believed in it and triple vaccinated. 


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I've worn it. 


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People don't want to do it anymore. 


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It is now endemic, it will come and go, 


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and I'm sorry, that that's the case. 


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Trying to block. 


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What a judge has done for something is deeply unpopular. 


00:15:05    

Whereas this literally is a Glide path to people like Ron 


00:15:08    

DeSantis and Donald Trump and Kevin McCarthy. 


00:15:10    

If you really think that you need to wear a mask on an 


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airplane, even though you take it off, half the time to eat 


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your food and drink, just like the stupid rule when you have 


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the bar and you think that's more important than preserving 


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democracy, especially at the 


00:15:22    

place. 


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We are now with covid. 


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I disagree with you. 


00:15:25    

I really disagree with you fundamentally and I'm saying 


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this, not because I'm against masks, not because I'm against 


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covid, but covid fatigue is real. 


00:15:35    

And also mental health matters, quality of life matters, 


00:15:40    

and that's all we can do. 


00:15:41    

There's always going to be weak people who need help. 


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There's always be poor people. 


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There's always going to be people who we should look after 


00:15:46    

I agree. 


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But you can't organize society around this forever and ever 


00:15:50    

and ever, and public health must be balanced with personal 


00:15:52    

responsibility. 


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I believe. 


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Now, we are at that place. 


00:15:56    

What I have said that pre-vaccine know, I might even said 


00:15:58    

that six months ago, 


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but I want to tell you, the Democrats are going to impale 


00:16:03    

themselves driving. 


00:16:05    

Artists take of their own fortunes and arguably 


00:16:08    

democracy. 


00:16:09    

If they die on this hill, 


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it's not a hill worth dying on. 


00:16:13    

Okay? 


00:16:13    

Freedom means freedom for everybody. 


00:16:16    

I don't have to wear a mask. 


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You can wear a mask for the rest of your life. 


00:16:20    

How about this? 


00:16:21    

To all the hand. 


00:16:22    

Ringers? 


00:16:23    

You wear a mask? 


00:16:24    

Nobody's saying, you can't. 


00:16:25    

But many of us, I travel time at. 


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I don't want to wear one anymore. 


00:16:29    

Okay, as I said, I did the precautions. 


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I didn't say covid-19. 


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Speaking like a real person. 


00:16:36    

This is how we feel. 


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So same way gas is high inflation side. 


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All of these things may not be a product of one party or the 


00:16:43    

other though, Trump mismanaged grotesquely the pandemic and 


00:16:46    

its Origins. 


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But Here we are now, 


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okay, and I just want to say, we have to think about things 


00:16:53    

in a holistic way. 


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We have to be able to step outside of ourselves and 


00:16:57    

critically. 


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Think we have to not say well, we've always believed that or 


00:17:01    

this is so and we have to stop being so goddamn tribal and 


00:17:04    

partisan. 


00:17:05    

I'm like you 


00:17:07    

I think I'm like you. 


00:17:08    

My wonderful listeners and like many Americans. 


00:17:10    

I wish all would listen this Pockets. 


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Anybody. 


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You're not a Democrat. 


00:17:14    

You're not a republican. 


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You're not a covid. 


00:17:15    

Cop. 


00:17:16    

You're not a covid denier. 


00:17:17    

You're not a homophobe and you're not. 


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Not a homophobe. 


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You're not a transphobic. 


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Okay, but you also don't want the government over regulating 


00:17:25    

your business. 


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You want people to live their lives. 


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Today is April 20th, by the way for 20, it's weed day. 


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Well, we'd should not be, it should be a legal thing. 


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NG. 


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Okay enough already with the Cannabis regulation enough. 


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You can decriminalize like Amsterdam. 


00:17:40    

We can talk about the details. 


00:17:42    

Government does has no business being, you're prude parent, 


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telling you what you should and shouldn't. 


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Do you want to go get stoned? 


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Get stone. 


00:17:49    

Leave me the fuck alone. 


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Right? 


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And that's what I say. 


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We all want to be left. 


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The fuck alone. 


00:17:54    

Life's hard enough, 


00:17:55    

governments to Big 


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the Democrats over reach though. 


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They are the party that I think believes in democracy, but our 


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two-party system now can exist because we have lunatics and 


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what ends Happening is you just reaffirmed the worst of the 


00:18:07    

Democrats because they won't be checked in their power and blue 


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States because nobody will vote red. 


00:18:12    

I'm not saying they have to vote read, but that's impasse 


00:18:15    

that were at. 


00:18:16    

I think that impasse that intersection that sweet spot is 


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where I live because I'm in the middle and I don't everything I 


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said today. 


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I don't have the answers to, I don't know. 


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Is all I'm saying. 


00:18:26    

I have opinions. 


00:18:28    

I know a lot of them are informed opinions and so are 


00:18:29    

yours, 


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but I don't know. 


00:18:32    

I might be wrong, but I do know him in there somewhere. 


00:18:35    

We're in the middle strata, 


00:18:37    

and I'm somewhere there. 


00:18:38    

But I've always been politically homeless, 


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may be suspended in midair some of the hate that, 


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I'm a Centrist. 


00:18:46    

I'm a dirty mug. 


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And I want to thank dirty moderates for joining me on 


00:18:51    

this podcast. 


00:18:51    

Listening those who join me, those who are listening and 


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everybody progressives, conservatives. 


00:18:56    

Never Trump has everybody. 


00:18:57    

We all are in the fight for democracy and we can all 


00:19:00    

continue to disagree because democracy depends upon the. 


00:19:03    

We can't hate each other 


00:19:05    

because we hate each other this experiment called America no 


00:19:09    

longer exists, 


00:19:12    

folks. 


00:19:13    

I don't know if you smoke weed or not, but it is 420 smoke 


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weed. 


00:19:16    

If you do go have a drink, do whatever you want. 


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I'm gonna go have a drink in the meantime. 


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Stay dirty. 


00:19:22    

Stay moderate. 


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Thanks for listening.